I recently entered my first remix contest and I’m proud to
say that I’ve just been informed that I won. It was for
thetruth.com and the contest was held on imeem. I found out about
it late and started the remix on the due date. I got a freak
allergy attack and had to do …

So much to write, so little time. In my last post I promised
to tell you how I was able to set up a custom website and domain
name for zero dinero. First, I have to make a couple of
disclaimers. I was once a web developer for the Federal Reserve
Board, so I do …

It’s been a full week since my last post, but I have a good
reason. I feel guilty, like I haven’t called my girlfriend in a
week. It’s weird. Last week I set up my Google Reader (details in
an upcoming post – it’s a must have). I was overcome with sensory
overload as information …

I never intended for this blog to discuss anything but
marketing and promoting your music online, but I feel like I’d be
on the wrong side of history not to make some statement about the
landmark election being held in the USA tomorrow (Nov. 4, 2009). I
could probably write 10,000 words about all of …

Finally, after years of hibernation, my debut album –
“Delights of the Garden” – is available to the masses for digital
download. There is a long story behind why this album has not been
available which I can’t really go into for legal reasons, but it’s
there now and I couldn’t be happier. Partially because …

One of my greatest obstacles on the road to digital
domination is my lack of organization and discipline. I am very
focused and motivated and I can spend hours and hours on any task
that I need to complete, but that tends to turn into a kind of
tunnel vision which causes me to lose …

This week marks a few milestones in journey to Digital
Domination. First – my friends list on Imeem topped 20,000. I don’t
actually believe that that translates into 20,000 real fans who
listen to and will buy my music, but it’s a good platform for
reaching new fans and as long as I don’t abuse …

The Imeem Badge is an underused feature offered by Imeem.com.
Here is an official definition from Imeem - “A badge is like your
personal imeem business card. It’s an easy way to share your imeem
profile and draw people to your page. You can customize your badge
and then add it to your other blog …

Years ago when I was doing a lot of work with legendary Dub
engineer, Scientist, we would amuse ourselves during down time by
doing remixes of old Beatles, Everly Brothers and James Brown
tracks. Since the owners of the Beatles catalog are notoriously
anal, we never tried to release them or do much other than …

Pandora is a relatively new customizable radio station
similar to last.fm. You can go on their website to learn more about
the very complicated algorithms that they use to calculate which of
400 separate musical attributes a song possesses that will make a
user either like it or not. What I would like to tell …

If you’re a new artist that is looking for a way to expand
your reach, you should take a look at the Podsafe Music Network.
For those who don’t know here is Wikipedia’s definition of a
podcast -
“A podcast is a series of audio or video digital-media files
which is distributed over the Internet by [...]

A very sweet imeem friend of mine named Carla posted this
very sweet picture that she made in the comments on my Imeem page.
Isn’t that precious?
She also downloaded my theme with my “Desmond Williams”
banner and all. I’m honored.
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There is a bit of irony in this story. A couple of months ago
I got the urge to do a remix, so I did a search for “remix contest”
on google. I came up with this remix contest being held by
thetruth.com (those folks with the agressive anti tobacco
commercials). I had to join [...]